Opinion

• Arianna Huffington: What the Hell Is Barbara Boxer Thinking? HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 6, 6:14 PM ET

  What the hell is Barbara Boxer thinking?

• More Bad News For Bean RealClearPolitics.com - Thu Jul 6, 12:50 PM ET

  Last month Melissa Bean's reelection bid in the 8th Congressional District in Illinois hit a rather sizeable bump in the road when the state AFL-CIO refused to endorse her - political payback for her vote in favor of CAFTA last year.

• Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu The Nation - Thu Jul 6, 2:32 PM ET

  The Nation -- "The assault on a free press ...should be recognized for what it is," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich last Sunday. "Another desperate ploy by officials trying to hide their own lethal mistakes in the shadows."

• Barbara Ehrenreich: Give Me That Old-Time Feminism HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 6, 4:49 PM ET

  Feminism, as you've probably been reading for the last 20 years, is dead. Most women today want to smash through the glass ceiling, run for the Senate, and buy contraceptives at will (not to mention abortions, at least if the fetus they're carrying turns out to be "defective.") But feminism? It's just a bunch of hairy-legged, man-hating, harridans screaming slogans that were already obsolete in the era of Charlie's Angels.

• Reviving the Generals' Revolt RealClearPolitics.com - Thu Jul 6, 1:59 AM ET

  There was a time not long ago when a general would resign rather than follow an order he could not, in good conscience, obey.

• New York Nixes Gay Marriage The Nation - Thu Jul 6, 2:29 PM ET

  The Nation -- So it looks like New York won't go the way of Massachusetts. Despite ideological similarities with Massachusetts's Supreme Judicial Court -- what NYU law professor Stephen Gillers called a similar "center of gravity" -- New York's Court of Appeals reached a very different conclusion in their ruling on gay marriage (Hernandez v. Robles).

• HOSTING G8 SUMMIT CAN'T CHANGE RUSSIA'S REALITIES Georgia Anne Geyer - Thu Jul 6, 8:06 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- A funny thing happened on the way from the end of the Cold War to today. Russia didn't become democratic, it didn't become modern and industrialized, and it still doesn't think it lost the ideological battle with the West.

• DID HE KISS JOE? William F. Buckley - Thu Jul 6, 7:07 PM ET

  I was thinking, gee whiz, maybe I am one of the reasons Sen. Joe Lieberman is having such a tough time running for re-election in Connecticut. Here's the story:

• A NOT VERY MEMORABLE TERM James Kilpatrick - Thu Jul 6, 7:06 PM ET

  Maybe next term will be better. That is about the best that can be said of the Supreme Court's 2005 term. It effectively ended last Thursday, not with a bang but with a sputter.

• TOP SECRET INTERVIEW EXPOSED! Ann Coulter - Wed Jul 5, 8:06 PM ET

  It was nice to see The New York Times commemorating Independence Day this week with a tribute to its favorite Revolutionary War hero, Benedict Arnold. Times editor Bill Keller spent the day attending Revolutionary War battle re-enactments, where he passed the Continental Army's secret battle plans to the British.

• HOW DICK CHENEY SPENT HIS SUMMER VACATION Ted Rall - Wed Jul 5, 7:24 PM ET

  U.S. Plants Seeds of Disaster in Kazakhstan

• Editorial roundup AP - Wed Jul 5, 1:08 PM ET

  Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

• AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC STILL? Pat Buchanan - Tue Jul 4, 6:50 AM ET

  Two hundred thirty years have elapsed since Jefferson's document was signed in Philadelphia, declaring the 13 colonies to be independent forever of the England of George III.

• BUFFETT'S GIFT MAY SIGNAL A TREND TOWARD CHARITY Georgia Anne Geyer - Mon Jul 3, 8:06 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- Is it possible that we have reached a turning point after the miseries of the last five years? After everything had seemed so ... so Enron, so Ramadi, so Guantanamo, so Taliban, so, well, Tom Delay?

• HOW LOW WILL ADVERTISERS GO? Brent Bozell III - Mon Jul 3, 6:50 AM ET

  The next time you bite into a juicy Wendy's hamburger, just remember this: The corporate folks at Wendy's apparently are content to advertise their burgers on TV shows that treat spousal rape as just another entertaining plot twist.

• BOYS' PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL NEED ATTENTION, NOT DISMISSAL John Leo - Sun Jul 2, 8:42 PM ET

  How do you get your opinions on Page One of The Washington Post? Do you phone the editor and say, "Here's what I think ..." No. You type up your thoughts and label them a "report" or "study." Reports and studies are authoritative. So they have a shot at the front page, even if they lack report-like qualities such as fresh evidence and independent research.

• THE DEGREES OF 'IMPORTANT' James Kilpatrick - Sun Jul 2, 8:42 PM ET

  The Court of Peeves, Crotchets & Irks resumes its summer assizes with a motion from Mrs. Hattie B. Polk of Waynesboro, N.C. She asks the court to settle an argument over "more importantly" and "most importantly."

• GROWTH OF CITIES NO CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION David Shribman - Sat Jul 1, 8:08 PM ET

  The most ignored and maybe most important report to be issued this year has a startling finding, and you don't have to be a Jeffersonian steeped in the romance of the agrarian life to recognize its danger: Sometime in the next year, more than half the world's population will live in cities.

• SACRED COW Mona Charen - Sat Jul 1, 6:50 AM ET

  A devil's brew of cynicism on one side and demagoguery on the other seemed to guarantee renewal of the "temporary" features of the Voting Rights Act first passed in 1965.

• SPINMANSHIP BY THE COURT William F. Buckley - Fri Jun 30, 8:08 PM ET

  These are vexing days for those who (a) want to press the war against terrorism, and (b) want to maintain the usual protections against unnecessary accretions of state power.

Most Popular Opinion

• How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Jul 6, 4:00 AM ET

  WASHINGTON - George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.

• The Roberts court: Seeing is believing USATODAY.com - Thu Jul 6, 7:02 AM ET

  With the end of the first term of the Roberts court, some liberals seemed to give a sigh of relief that the new conservative majority had not returned the nation to an antebellum legal system. But on closer inspection, the past term was no cause for hope, let alone celebration, for uneasy liberals, moderates or libertarians.

• Don't blame Hamas USATODAY.com - Thu Jul 6, 7:02 AM ET

  Israel's brutal response in Gaza - called "war crimes" by Amnesty International - to the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants will not further peace. Israel, more than Hamas, blocks peace.

• Satchel Paige's age eludes us, yet his wisdom is timeless USATODAY.com - Thu Jul 6, 7:02 AM ET

  "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." That's according to baseball immortal Leroy "Satchel" Paige, born 100 years ago on July 7, 1906. Paige (legend has it) won 2,100 games, 60 in one season, and 55 without giving up a hit. And that was before he was allowed in the majors as a 42-year-old "rookie."

• HOW DICK CHENEY SPENT HIS SUMMER VACATION Ted Rall - Wed Jul 5, 7:24 PM ET

  U.S. Plants Seeds of Disaster in Kazakhstan